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I'm sorry... I truly am... for what I'm about to say.


Intel's Intanium Processor also had Potential!

Oh hey, a tangent.

*performs a Zwillinger*

I do believe it's been stated in the past that the reason Faathim didn't get a cell-phone is that there was no in-game Lore explanation for how a signal would get out of the Prison. Remember that in the canon-lore Faathim uses the prison as a shield against the rest of Rularuu who constantly assault the structure.

It was a nice try at a straw-argument though, I'll give you that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b9gOtQoq4

There are 10 known Incarnate Power-Slots.

• Alpha
• Judgement
• Interface
• Lore
• Destiny
• Genesis
• Mind
• Vitae
• Omega

You can have an Active Power for each slot.

This means you can have 10 Incarnate Powers on any one character.

Nobody knows yet.

The Alpha-Slot level shift grants a permanent level-shift to a character in all of the in-game content.

The Lore-Slot and Destiny-Slots also grant a level-shift, but only inside of Incarnate Trials.

Future slots may also include level shifts only available inside of Incarnate Trials.

Yes and No.

Yes, you can only have an active Incarnate-Power for each Incarnate-Slot you have unlocked.

As of the current game release you can have an active Alpha Power, an active Lore Power, an active Destiny Power, an active Interface Power, and an Active Judgement Power.

* * *

No: You can build as many Incarnate Powers as you want to, and you can change between them.

The Alpha Slot, for example, has 4 sub-categories: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Alpha_Slot

• Cardiac
• Spiritual
• Musculature
• Nerve

You are not limited to building only one Alpha-Slot boost. You can build BOTH a Cardiac AND a Spiritual Enhancement if you wanted to, and swap out depending on whether or not you needed more endurance or more recharge.

There is no Full list of each incarnate power that is available. All of the lists are broken up.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Alpha_Slot_Abilities
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Destiny_Slot_Abilities
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Interface_Slot_Abilities
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Lore_Slot_Abilities
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Judgement_Slot_Abilities

How much time do you have to spend?

No, this isn't a joke answer. Your question is the same kind of question as somebody asking "how long does a task force take?" Nobody can give you a straight answer. Some teams can bang out a Citadel Task Force in an hour and thirty minutes while other teams will struggle to complete the TF in three hours.

Earning incarnate slots depends on factors beyond just yourself and your performance.

We can tell you that earning incarnate slots and incarnate powers can take time, but nobody can tell you how much time.

Yes and no.

Do you have endurance management problems? Then yes, the Cardiac Alpha will likely improve your ability to sustain combat performance. If you don't have issues with endurance, Cardiac probably won't represent a significant boost to your powers.

Do you have accuracy problems? Can't hit anything? Then yes, the Nerve Alpha will likely improve your ability to hit targets. If you don't have accuracy issues, Nerve probably won't represent a significant boost to your powers.

Are you a debuffer with the ability to sustain regeneration debuffs? Then you probably won't find much value in the Diamagnetic Interface's regeneration debuff.

Are you a debuffer with the ability to sustain defense debuffs? Then you probably won't find much value in the Paralytic Interface's defense debuff.

The point is, what you are as an archtype will have just as much an impact on the potential of Incarnate Powers to buff your character as your enhancement build.

We'd have to know what your strengths and weaknesses are without Incarnate Powers to answer questions over whether or not you'd be helped by any particular single Incarnate Power.

Short version: does not matter.

As Longboard points out, your questions are rather, loaded.

You are looking for hard answers to subjective questions, such as asking how much time obtaining the powers take.

A lot of what you want to know you'll likely be able to better figure out by playing the game.

General rule is that the developers do not talk about power-sets until the power-sets are actually ready to be released.

These actually were addressed by Sunstorm back in 2009: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=213


Um... popular request?

I... don't think so.

Here's a quick Google search of the boards.

Yeah, it gets brought up... maybe once a year?

Again, to reiterate. The developers do not talk about power-sets until the power-sets are either complete, or nearly complete.

So no. There has been no word.

Question:

In the past it has been said that players will have to choose to move to Hero or Villain when they finish the existing Praetorian Loyalist / Resistance Arcs.

Do the First Ward missions change this?

Are Loyalist / Resistance's still required to complete the conversion at level 20 to Hero / Villain?

Or can Loyalist / Resistance factions avoid the conversion and simply go straight to First Ward and start in-game content??

Or can Loyalist / Resistance factions go to First Ward, but are given "Tourist Staus" : that is : they can participate in First Ward Missions, but not start First Ward content?

Edited for clarity.

Okay, obviously, if I'm posting in this thread, I'm here to rain on your little parade.

The fact is, from the time that PvP was added to the game in May 2005's Issue Number 4: Colosseum, to the so called "PvP Disaster" that was Issue 13 in December 2008, the Player-Versus-Player population never rose above single digit percentages.

One of the developers went so far as to once say that the Old-Hollows map, the pre-issue 12 version, averaged more player traffic... that is the number of unique players entering the zone... for each server... than all of the PvP open-area zones and arenas combined.

The simple facts are these: The PvP player population in City of Heroes was never large enough to justify the resources that were spent to develop Issue 4. The PvP player population has never been a large, or profitable, part of the player-base. NCSoft nor Paragon Studios have any financial incentive to focus on PvP development for this game, City Of Heroes.

Now, as far as I am aware, NCSoft's official policy is that they would like to drive PvP-oriented gamers to their Aion and Guild Wars franchises, which have been successful in attracting a wide-range of Player-versus-Player enthusiasts.

My suspicion is that unless NCSoft has a fundamental shift in policy; for example an overwhelming financial incentive; to fund the development of player-versus-player content for City of Heroes, it is very likely that Player-versus-player development is effectively halted.

Now, I get what you are trying to accomplish here.

If you think that you are going to be successful in rallying other Player-versus-Player enthusiasts against Matt "Positron" Miller for a deliberate out-of-context quote that is framed to make a non-existent player faction seem more important than it was ever was...

You are not.

The devs use another internal name for those powers: Ancillary

–adjective

• 1. subordinate; subsidiary.
• 2. auxiliary; assisting.

Basically, the powers aren't supposed to be epic.

Another aspect is that Hoarfrost was only added to the Blaster Ancillary Power Pool in Issue 13: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/pat...nsibility.html

As far as I'm aware the developers have never stated the exact reasons they added what powers they did to the Ancillary Power Pools in the I13 expansion. We do know some general rules of power-set development; such as the avoidance of power-set duplication; so it is possible to draw some conclusions as to why Hoarfrost was added over another existing ice power. Any additional attacks would already be in the ice blast primary pool or ice manipulation secondary pool. The Ancillary Pool already had the ice toggle debuff, the ice armor, and Hibernate.

Given these factors, Hoarfrost was one of the few ice powers that was likely available for use.

You completely missed the point I was making to Yellowbeard.

Let me pose the question another way:

What players wanting a life-time-subscription asking for?

• Is it to play the game without charge?
• Or is it to get all the bonus's of playing the game without charge?

Now, if a person is simply looking to play the game without charge... how... exactly... does this differ from letting an account drop to Premium?

Depending on your vet status you "probably" aren't loosing anything that you've already gained in game.

And if anything you may be able to save some cash just buying new staff out of Paragon Points.

Now, if a person is looking to get all of the bonus's for having a subscription without paying the costs of a subscription... now we are back to why Life-time Subscription are a BAD FINANCIAL IDEA.

An idea that has been shot down by anybody who has participated in Economics 001. Not necessarily graduated mind you... but participated.

Let me pose a question to you Yellowbeard:

Looking at this page: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/fre...es.html#tabs-4

And considering that we already know controllers / MM's are unlocked for "premium players" under the Paragon Rewards program...

Could you tell me the difference between a life-time subscription and the premium subscription?

I agree that this may be the only work-around.

I hate it... and I'd rather see things change on the part of NCSoft.

The launcher requires Microsoft .NET.

So yes, if you have a Windows Operating System installed in a Virtual Machine, yes, the launcher will run.

You still need an installation of a Windows Operating System.

The launcher can be... really difficult... to point.

However, since the launcher does allow changing the installation point... this might work.

Hmm. A complex solution. Does not get around the whole "have to have Microsoft Windows" problem... but possibly viable.

Yeah.

With requests like this I get the impression that the player's belief is that the developers have already done all of the work to proliferate a power-set, such as:

• Rebalanced all of the internal numbers versus the archtype numbers

  Such as Corruptors getting less damage on the initial attack punch, but adding damage on the back end through scourge.

  Giving brute's lower base damage, but balancing it against Fury Generation to be higher damage with fury

• Re-arrange when players get various powers

  case in point being the proliferation of Psychic Blast powers Will Domination and Psychic Blast

• Replace duplicate powers, remove non AT type powers, add AT type powers.

  Stalkers get their Assassin's blow at 6, Build up at 8, and Placate at 12. Period.

  Ignoring Energy Manipulation is which has been called an aberration that will not be repeated, Blaster's first secondary power is always an immobilize.

  referencing Epic Powers, Dominators get Sleet through Ice Mastery while Controllers don't. Controller's don't get Sleet because it's in their Cold Domination power-set.

  referencing Fire Melee, Tanks get Combustion, while Brute's and Scrapper's lose the extra AOE attack in return for an extra single target attack, Cremate.

That's a list of stuff from just off the top of my head. Several years ago Sunstorm had a post that shed some light on the background development of power-sets: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=213

When proliferating powers, or adding new powers, development is not just as simple as changing some numbers in a spread-sheet and calling it a day.

Those buildings aren't, but that statue?

Go look behind Galaxy's current City Hall.

Not really.

With a limited number of statues in Galaxy, this sounds like something for a Giant Monster fight than a regular mob spawn.

So there could be nothing missed here.

Bloody forum login problem.

Okay. Short Short Short version.

First: DirectX is a Legacy API vendors are better off ignoring.

There is no reason for Paragon Studios to take a flying leap into the computing dark ages with a limp-lementation of a DirectX renderer.

Second: Nvidia has 64bit issues, not OpenGL issues.

Your best bet for help, other than buying an AMD graphics card, is to inform Nvidia of your issues: http://www.nvidia.com/object/driverq...assurance.html

"If" the devs were to consider the option, I'd say... "Any Account with a retail code from CoH to CoV release with at least 3 years subscribed time"

Yes... this time period was actually calculated for the time difference between the launch of City of Villains and Issue 13:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_13
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/City_of_Villains

As to why I would suggest it... well... honestly... I think it'd be a nicer gesture to a subsection of the player population.

part of me really wants to bring out the old dead horse picture for this thread...

but honestly... after today's bombshell... I really can't fault you for trying.

Hamidon is also a cheat in the system.

His mito's, for example, do have maximum protection and resistance to knock-effects. Reportedly their "flying" effect is gained by being immobilized on a tiny translucent platform. Pets, such as Phantom Army, can be observed using these platforms to jump from... or land upon.

Regardless, they are still bipedal frames underneath used to mount the object in viewable space.

actually they do, and it is true.

The easiest way to demonstrate the underlying skeleton is with something like say, the Veteran Combat Pets: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Veteran_...mbat-Buff_Pets

Get a cold dom and have them shield the Whisp or the Drone. You'll note that although these pets are presented to the player as a round floating object... the underlying skeleton is... a bipedal cross.

What's probably going on with the micro-spiders and Jaegers is a "cheat' in the system. The underlying skeleton is a bipedal skeleton object that is given 100% translucency so that you can't see it, and outside of buff-object mappings such as Cold Domination Shields, there's no player exposed method to view the skeleton frame.

Another method of exposing the skeleton is get a knockback heavy team-mate. You can create some... interesting physical interactions... where the Arachnos Tarantulas will collide and clip with objects on the basis of their skeletal frame.

As far as giant monsters such as Lusca, I don't think the devs have ever said whether or not Lusca is based on a Skeleton or an "Object". My suspicion would be a bipedal frame with maximum immobilize, maximum knock-effect protection, and maximum knock-effect resistance. Regardless Lusca is still cheat on the system. Try targeting him sometime with a power that zeros in on the targeting location, such as Surveillance: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Munition...y#Surveillance

You might notice that the actual targeting point for Lusca is inside the tentacles, indicating that there is a frame-underneath that the tentacles and head are overlapped upon.